`Welcome to Week 154.

Cows, Milk, and Dairy products have arrived on Icarus, opening up new recipes and farming systems to use.

With new animals also come new trophies that can be crafted and placed in your base.

Lastly, we’ve got a preview of a new weapon type that is coming to Icarus next week.

Originally posted by Exctoris: If you are using an NVIDA GPU and have updated your drivers recently to NVIDIA Driver 565.90 or newer you may be experiencing more frequent crashes with Icarus and other games. We have contacted NVIDIA and let them know. In the meantime we suggest reverting to 561.09.

Notable Improvements:

• Deep Wood Veins will now appear in the Null Sector Zones in Prometheus. This fixes an issue last week where they would not appear on existing prospects
  
• Stonejaws now take damage while wet if they're enraged, and wetness is removed from them after 5 seconds (the Fire Extinguisher is an effective anti-stonejaw weapon)
  
• The issue with the Talent Points not always being granted from the Null Sector Final Mission, and the associated exploit with brand new characters has resolved, if you have completed the mission and have the account flag, all of your characters receive the three bonus talent points - once only.
  
• Teenage Caveworm Fire Resistance has been reduced from -1000 to -100

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This Week: Cows & Milk

Cows have come to Icarus. You can now purchase Calves from the orbital workshop and bring them down to your prospects, where you will need to then raise them up into Cows the same way you raise Terranus foals or Moa chicks found in the wild.

When the Calves mature, they will become Cows and periodically produce Milk if they are kept fed and watered. Two new items, the Milk Pail and the Milk Bottle, allow milk to be collected.

The Milk Pail (craftable on the Anvil) holds 5L of milk, but the Milk will slowly spoil, and once spoiled, the pail will empty. Milk bottles, craftable on the glassworking bench, hold 2L, but the Milk inside will not spoil.

Milk can then be crafted into Cream or Cheese or even drunk on its own for a stamina buff.

Cream and Cheese can be used as an intermediary for some new recipes, including Butter, Pavlova, Bacon Butties, Cheese Pizza, and Rolls, with more coming in the future.

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This Week: Trophies

With new animals come new trophies, in Calf and Cow versions. These are craftable on the Trophy Bench.

A reminder: you will have to kill and collect the vestiges of both Calves and Cows to be able to craft these, so don’t get too attached.

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Early Next Year: Husbandry

This addition is part of a bigger project we’ve been working on that we hope to bring out early next year - Husbandry. Specifically, with Cows, Bulls, Chickens, Roosters, Sheep, and Rams, we will be introducing a way to breed your animals to create new juvenile ones. We have this working internally but want to spend some more time testing and honing all the functionality to make sure it fits the game well and is rewarding to use. We are also looking into having some inherited traits to further the system.

Alongside this, we plan on updating the talent tree to include these changes and a few features that have been added over the years but haven’t been incorporated into the the tree fully.

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Next Week: Assault Rifle

Next week, we plan to release the second new type of weapon in the ‘series’ we’ve been debuting—the first of which was the flamethrower.

This will be Icarus' first automatic assault rifle, which may seem overkill for the current foe you encounter but will make a lot more sense with some other upcoming features that will require a bit more firepower.

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Changelog v2.2.29.129911

New Content

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• Fixing it so calves only grow up into cows for now
  
• Added cow talent tree icon
  
• Assigned cow talent icon
  
• Adjusted calf locomotion speed to match animations, should reduce foot sliding
  
• Fixed cow and calf meshes hovering below and above ground
  
• Fixed additional, uninitialised tooltip showing on juveniles
  
• Tweaked fuzzy search on CustomComboBox widget to show exact match first
  
• Added ParentCharacter variable to IcarusCharacter and IcarusCharacterRecorderComponent, is currently used to record and restore a juvenile's birth parent
  
• Domesticated juveniles (calf, lamb, chick) can now be led/tamed even if they have a parent creature
  
• Added cheat to make nearest animal pregnant (if supported)
  
• Tweaked lookat height for both cows and calves
  
• Fixed bug where IcarusMountCharacter::HusbandryBehaviourState wasn't replicating correctly
  
• Fixed calf carcass itemable name
  
• Updated the INT_02 dropship texture with Sol tribute added to one one of the post it notes
  
• Added small amount of physics sim to calf/cow tails
  
• Fixed bug where domesticated juveniles were designating nearest mount as parent on spawn
  
• Update Seat camera/springarm setup to make it customizable so that RespawnPods can have their camera adjusted to be inside the pod
  
• Add FirstPerson arms to Respawn Pod
  
• Show FirstPerson arms when in first person and seated
  
• Restrict FP camera rotation amount in dropship seat to prevent players looking through FP arms
  
• Unlocking Workshop Item: Cryogenic Calf
  
• Unlocking Cow
  
• Unlocking Cheese, Cheese Recipes, Milk Containers and Associated Blueprints
  
• Milk can now Spoil - when spoiled the milk container will empty
  
• Adding Milk Function Library for Easy use of milk related items
  
• Unlocking Cow / Calf and Milk Related Items Blueprints and Talents
  
• Adding Descriptions to Milk Pail and Milk Bottle to describe if milk spoils when contained within
  
• Added interactable to cow that calls milk bucket actionable behaviour
  
• Flipped boolean condition inside BT_Tame_CowIdle to fix cows not producing milk correctly
  
• Slightly increased precise reach height multiplier for Cow BP
  
• Milk can now be consumed for a stamina regen & shared xp bonus
  
• Milk now provides water when consumed
  
• Adjusting Cow Milk production times (as 12 seconds for a cow to produce a full udder of milk was just a test value)
  
• Adding Cream, Butter, Cheese Roll, Cheese Pizza & Pavlova Recipes
  
• Cows now have their fillable set to milk by default
  
• Cows produce ~1.5 L per 10mins if they are fed and watered, they hold a maximum of 30L
  
• Fixed bug where calves couldn't eat from food containers
  
• Added cow, bull, and calf trophy art assets. Updated cow and bull torphy BPs and created calf trophy BP. Added cattle bestiary image and updated bestiary data table
  
• Added Cattle bestiary text
  
• Setup Cattle bestiary stats
  
• Fixed Skittish bestiary trait icon being missing
  
• Fixed stack sizes and recipe sets for new dairy recipes
  
• Added modifier stats for new dairy food items
  
• Added variant recipes for pastry and crispy bacon using butter
  
• Workshop crates that spawn juvenile NPCs will now automatically start the taming process and make the spawned NPC follow interacting player
  
• Adding Cow / Calf Vestiages / Trophies and unlocking
  
• Updated cattle trophy fur meshs LODs. Uopdated cow trophy LOD with custom LOD to prevent fur clipping. Added splines to cow trophy Gfur
  
• Adding Recipes / Items / Icons / Modifiers for Butter, Cream, Pizza, Pavlova, Bacon Butties, Berries and Cream
  
• Adjusting Milk Pail Fillable Size, reducing cow fillable size, and reducing the amount of milk produced per 10 minutes
  
• Added bestiary points for milking cows
  
• Added setup for emptying milk, controls and resetting the milks spoil timer when the pail is empty and you get new milk
  
• Update milk resource color to be closer to white but still slightly tinted (to differentiate from oxygen)
  
• Setup milk field guide resource
  
• Fixed food tag on new dairy items (food slots, ice box, refrigerator)
  
• Changed milk resource icon colour
  
• Unlocking Workshop Calf as it was locked
  
• Fixed bug where cow would immediately fill up with milk on first tick of relevant idle logic
  
• Increased the efficiency of Butter alternate recipes
  
• Fixing issue where cream and butter would not spoil into anything
  
• Fixed new dairy not being able to be placed in Deep Freeze. Updated tag for Deep Freeze, Icebox and Refrigerator to all use a Spoilable_ColdSlowsSpoilRate query, so items that can go in one can go in all of them
  
• Adding Recorder Component for cows so their milk status is saved
  
• Fix Bestiary setup for Dribbo (from the quest) being not set
  
• Coffee can now correctly be crafted with or without cream, adding cream now grants the Coffee with Cream flavoring, instead of the Coffee flavoring. Crafting Coffee without Cream correctly grants the Coffee flavoring (instead of Coffee with Cream)
  
• Fixed cheese, butter, milk pails and cream being not storable in fridge or icebox
  
• Updated calf trophy LODs to remove base mesh crashing through Fur. Updated Deployable data tables with correct placement meshs
  
• Fixing Coffee With Cream Recipe to Include Cream

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Fixed

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• Fix Lupine: Extraction is not granting players ability to craft black wolf items
  
• Add translated text to Operations selection button
  
• Fixed animation on gears as the small ones driving the stones were going the wrong direction. Turned out being a seeming limitation on how many times a bone is able to rotate in an animation in UE4
  
• Update quest strings to permit keybinding
  
• Add ability to show bound/remapped keys in quest steps
  
• Fixed a number of typos
  
• Fixed highlight tooltip not following overflow bags if they fall due to gravity
  
• Stonejaws now take damage while wet if they're enraged, and wetness is removed from them after 5 seconds (the Fire Extinguisher is an effective anti-stonejaw weapon)
  
• Fire Extinguisher water usage increased
  
• Cleanup Olympus: remove many Notes that are now obsolete, ungroup everything, remove (unsupported) vertex mesh painting to dramatically reduce developer level filesize, flush grass cache
  
• Correcting the stone pickaxe crafted sound to be the correct generic craft sound not the crafting bench sound
  
• Fix final nullsec '3 character talents' is awarded, but does not apply to subsquently created new characters, or other existing characters
  
• Reduced amount of hitching when opening loadout screen via Orbital Exchange Interface
  
• Fixed HEAL device being unable to be crafted at the Machining Bench
  
• Added translatable text to server join message when the server is in lobby mode
  
• Fixed multiple error messages showing when the Orbital Exchange device is sheltered
  
• Adding Logic so Frozen Wood Viens will now spawn on existing prospects
  
• Fixed a typo in some generic dialogue
  
• Adjusting Teenage Caveworm Fire Resistance to match the cave worm (-1000 -> -100)

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Future Content

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• Quick Prototype of a Mission Radio Device that accesses a C0NT4CT device when held in your hand so you can kick missions off while not being at a C0NT4CT device
  
• Adding IceMammoth Trap Description and Lore
  
• Setup up Great Hunt device as a device brough from orbit
  
• Great Hunt Device can now access hunts or open the crafting menu depening on interact point
  
• Add Scorpion, Sandworm, Lavahunter, Black Wolf, Slug, Lava Hunter, Ice Mammoth, Rock Golem & Great Ape items to the great hunt device
  
• Adding Blueprints and Setup for the Rock Golem Trophy Lamp
  
• DLC2 - swapped entrances and added switchbacks to new DC caves
  
• Modifying WorldStats Subsystem so it can incorperate all of Prospect Stats, Great Hunt Stats and Custom Game stats into the World Stats List and calls update appropriately where required
  
• Adding World Stats for the Rock Golem Great Hunt and Assigning to Various Missions
  
• The World Talent Manager now spawns as part of the IcarusGameStateSurvival, is set to spawn everytime and set to findonly when reloading
  
• Added most appropriate armour audio set to swamp ape armour in data table setup
  
• DLC2 - duplicated meshes and BPs for DC cave entrances, added switchback segments to CAVE_DC_MED_001_DLC2
  
• Shifting the Location of one of the sub quests in GH_RG_D
  
• Placing Outpost Quest Markers for GH_RG_C2 & GH_RG_D
  
• Making Ice Version of the Rock Golem Juvenile Spawner
  
• DLC2 - added 3rd new impassable for desert
  
• Adding open audio for hte great hunt interfaced device. Audio, event, notify
  
• Small fix to assault rifle recoil which was meaning it would move more horizontally than vertically with each shot
  
• Added DEP_LandingPad_T4 with meshes, animation, textures and materials. Also added the meshes to the BP. Still need to add lights to BP
  
• Adding appropriate audio for rock golem boss trophys
  
• Fixing build issue for D_DeployableSetup_Rock_Golem_Lamp_B
  
• Updated DEP_Trophy_Golem_2 and destructible
  
• GH_RG_C mission has had the mining platform updated
  
• Cliff Pass Blockout on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass and Cliff Pass on Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Delete Portable Beacon actor accidentally placed into Outpost 002 level and folder cleanup
  
• DLC2 - test mesh and FT for cliff foliage
  
• Adjustments to great hunt device deploy audio volume. Also adjustment to sledgehammer whoosh
  
• Adding Widget for displaying images on the great hunt device
  
• Added lights to the BP for DEP_LandingPad_T4
  
• Adding unique sledgehammer events and notifys with anim data to swap depending on what sledgehammer is used
  
• Adding audio for ape swinging in trees. Audio event and anim notify
  
• Fixed Rock Golem Chair crafting and placement
  
• Add power requirement to light up the landing pad
  
• Filled in some interior holes in DEP_LandingPad_T4 to make it a bit more air tight
  
• DLC2 - duplicated LC SML rocks+ FTs, new decal for covering slopes
  
• Adding biome entries for GH arenas
  
• Updated all meshes for ITM_Sledeghammer_IceMammoth with added Core Skeletal Mesh
  
• DLC2 - added new sand variant materials for remaining cliffs and lrg rocks
  
• Added additional control for sand overlay on master rock material
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass and Cliff Pass on Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Cliff Pass Blockout on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Added combined mesh for DEP_LandingPad_T4 to use for placement
  
• New BuildingBase weather blocker mesh no longer affects raytracing
  
• Added all textures and updated materials for the different mineral variants for the Juvenile Rock Golem
  
• Fixed Great Hunt UI image reference link for Ape hunt
  
• Fixed IceMammoth Sledgehammer Core blueprint reference
  
• Progress on Garganutan Great Hunt missions D, C and C2
  
• Adding IceMammoth Sledgehammer Item Icon
  
• Rock golem balance pass. Adding cave reverb snapshot to cave ambience so cave audio is triggered in a controllable way. vocal priority adjustments and general distance tweaks
  
• Fix IceMammoth sledgehammer meshable setup
  
• Updated ITM_Sledgehammer_IceMammoth Skeletal and static meshes
  
• DLC2 - various desert and tundra material variants for cliffs and rocks, adjustments to master rock material to fix snow overlay not matching landscape
  
• Fixed landing pad preview mesh
  
• Cliff Pass Blockout on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass and Cliff Pass on Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Added inital setup for the flamethrower living weapon textures, materials, and static meshs
  
• Add Ape great hunt mission C and C2
  
• Adding Rock Golem Gauntlet Upgrades
  
• Added HG_Aspen_Var1 with it's colour variants, including the burnt version, FTs and BPs
  
• balance of boss arena reverb level
  
• Adding Ape Leagendary Weapon Upgrades
  
• Adding Hammerhead Slug GLob Launcher Upgrades and setup to Datatable
  
• Display localized keybinds correctly in mission objectives overview
  
• Adding correct biome to rock golem biome override
  
• Adjustments to ice pillar audio culling and volumes, adding boss biome fmod param to set reverb for each. Adjustments to ballistic travel and impact
  
• Added Garganutan quest step setups and first 2 mission implementation framework
  
• Adding audio rows for the boss biomie arenas
  
• Great Hunt Dep Blueprint updated with widget and mission images
  
• Great Hunt Dep widget updated
  
• Great Hunt Dep images added to screen widget
  
• Setting up Lava Hunter Flamethrower Legendary Weapon
  
• Added 3 Custom LODs and two generated LODs for DEP_LandingPad_T4_Base as well as generated LODs for SK_DEPLandingPad_T4_Lights. Also added more appropriate PMs for all materials
  
• adding Great Hunt Dep info screen images
  
• Adding ice pillar audio event and blueprint imp for ice mammoth boss
  
• Fixed some decal FTs that weren't correctly aligning to landscape
  
• Adding Ice Mammoth Sledgehammer Legendary Weapon Part Setup, it can now be purchased used and upgraded
  
• Fixed an error in the flagpole description
  
• Setting biome override on Ice Mammoth and Rock Golem arenas to new entries
  
• Adding unique events for the great hunts boss arenas
  
• Adding back mesh context for condensed exotic meteor and hooking up to Meshable and BP
  
• Ice Mammoth - Added ice pillar attack that targets every nearby player and spawns them under the bats. Added weather events for the ice mammoth
  
• Adding correct deploy audio for landing pad
  
• Added BLD_Door_Barn_Wood_1by1, BLD_Door_Barn_Wood_1by2 and BLD_Door_Barn_Wood_2by2 with animations
  
• Added ice mammoth montage instead of mammoth montage to the ice pillar behavior tree. Adjustment to speed curve of mass projectiles
  
• Reduction in rooster vocal frequencies
  
• Elysium - started blockout of red quad geothermal area
  
• Adjusting Great Hunt Talent Controller so it doesn't require a character state to perform operations as its linked to the prospect and not the character
  
• Fixed resistance and weaknesses on Lava Broodling world spawns
  
• Ice Mammoth Boss - Added frost spots to the larger ice projectiles, Added auras to both the ice pillars and the ice mammoth that applies a cold/slow that then becomes frostbite, Added weather forecast for ice arena
  
• Growth tweaks to the hammerhead slug boss fight to increase damage to structures and some cooldown tweaks to sweep volley attack for medium sized slug
  
• Small further reduction to bounciness of smaller ice mammoth projectiles to stop mass audio and adding unique bat kill NS to play death FX at correct angle facing hte camera
  
• Fixes put in place to stop ice mammoth projectile spawning infinite amounts of ice spots that would cause hundreds of audio cues to try and play. Reducing bounciness and spawning the ice spot on settle which is almost instant. Cooldowns on audio events to limit amount of times they can play
  
• Add DX11/DX12/DX12+RT information to the UI to help diagnose with screenshot reports
  
• Adding Virtual Stat Calculations for the Ape / Rock Golem / Ice Mammoth
  
• Adding Stats for the RockGolem / Juvenile, Ape / Juvenile and IceMammoth and setting up their bestiary enteries + progressive stats
  
• Ice Mammoth den entrance - added ice detail and adjusted mesh positions
  
• Adding frost spot snow ice crack and snow PM to ice mammoth frost spots
  
• Balance and behaviour pass for the hammer head slug world boss, upped health values, added a few new attacks and behaviors and general scaling per player connected
  
• Cliff Pass Blockout on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass, Cliff and Macro Pass on Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Adding frosted wind gust ice crack for potential use on overlap of frosted spot. May use something else depending on VFX pass. Not added to BP yet until visuals are updated
  
• WIP Ice Mammoth den entrance
  
• Added new ForceGripIK curve to 1st character rig that will enable left-hand IK for any animation that has the curve (not just weapons as the system currently works)
  
• Remove custom UIProjectionLocation component from Caveworm Drop actor after its base class was changed and now inherits one already
  
• Slight reduction in size of bat kill fx
  
• Add Ape D2 Great Hunt mission
  
• Added sockets to the Lava Hunter Flamethrower skeleton
  
• Fixing focusable disabling the back context for the mesh by adding in 1H focusable and dummy cube context mesh
  
• Fixing Bestiary Progressive stats for Ape & Juvienile
  
• Updated flamethrower legendary weapon meshs, testures, and materials. Added skeletal mesh. Added assets to the data table
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass, Cliff and Macro Pass on Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Add the rest of the Garganutan Great Hunt missions
  
• Add DT validation for FLOD Flammable Tree entries with no Burnt FLODEntry defined
  
• WIP Great Ape arena entrance, mossy CF cliff material variants
  
• Rock Golem now has a loot inventory that is populated upon first interaction after death
  
• Resaving soem elephant assets to try fix error
  
• Fixed a few typos in GH quest descriptions
  
• Increasing the distance of the spacializer of ice mammoths ballistics so they can be heard coming towards the player sooner
  
• Added LookAt to Rock Golem and associated curve on various montages to disable it when necessary
  
• Added screenshake to a number of Rock Golem heavy attacks
  
• Fixed Rock Golem Juvenile not having it's modifier removed correctly
  
• Increased intensity of Rock Golem's roll screen shake
  
• Added extra knockback strength, damage, and range to Rock Golem's heavy slam attack
  
• Increased Rock Golem's base melee damage by 70%
  
• Setup Ape Great Hunt tree and restrictions
  
• Fixed Garganutan Head Armor item info
  
• Setup Garganutan Armor bonuses and set bonus
  
• Ice Mammoth - Scaled bird spawning. max birds/spawn rate dynamically change value based on nearby characters. 'Scale int' distance now set to 25000 from 15000
  
• Ice Mammoth Arena - Added cave enterance/Prep for instanced level
  
• Ice Mammoth Boss - Turned on external actors/Removed RVTs
  
• Added ActionAnimMappings to chick BP, enabling correct juvenile behaviours
  
• DEV: Added deployable decal setups to allow easy placement of decals in the world while building bases for missions
  
• Added chicken family bestiray image with rooster and chick included. Added art assets for the rooster and chick trophies. Updated rooster trophy bp and created chick trophy BP
  
• Rock Golem Den Entrance - first pass
  
• Great Ape Den Entrance - revised foliage, added extra detail + required material variants for rocks and cliffs
  
• Adding Descriptions and Flavour text for Legendary Weapons
  
• Ice Mammoth - Made ice pillars/map locations replicated
  
• Added SM_DCO_Bed_Quilted_Double and destructicle
  
• Added DCO_Rocking_Chair_Single and Double
  
• Adding ability to see the number of units of a resource required for a recipeAdding all remaining meshes, materials, textures, FTs, BPs and data table entries for all variants of the Aspen trees
  
• Added SM_DCO_DeskLamp_Var2_Brutalist, which has a square lampshade rather than a round one like the current Desk Lamp
  
• Cliff Pass Blockout on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Initial setup of Ape Jr creature
  
• Adding in unique event for when the rock golem loses some of its armor. Also adjustments to some distances for better audible cues for important moments
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass, Cliff and Macro Pass on Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Add a temporary Ice Mammoth Arena to Outpost_009 for instanced level testing
  
• Updated DC Cave Prefab Switchback
  
• Added legendary weapon - hammerhead slug launcher static meshes, materials and textures
  
• second pass on Rock Golem Den Entrance
  
• Ice Mammoth - Fixed replication issues on pillar on client. Client wasn't able to see ice pillars coming up due to timeline being on server only
  
• Rock Golem Boss VFX for Death/Burrow/Idle/Roll/HeavyAttacks/LightAttacks/Roar/Rock Payload
  
• Added sk meshes for legendary weapon - hammerhead slug and updated data table
  
• Various setup for Great Ape (Anim BP, Blackboard, placeholder behaviour tree etc.)
  
• Adding BaseLevelRecorderComponent to BaseLevelTeleports, this is set to FindOnly and currently only records the teleport active state
  
• Reparenting Den Entrances for Great Hunts to use the Teleport Main base class, fixed collision on assets and placed a single interact point inside the entrances
  
• Replaced the Main Teleport in outpost 009 (temporary) with the Ice Mammoth Den Entrance
  
• Cliff Pass Blockout on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Added art assets for a large plate and three cake flavours. Updated cake blueprints with new assets
  
• Replaced the BP for the hammerhead slug launcher
  
• Updated data table for legendary weapon - hammerhead slug launcher
  
• Elysium - Building out geothermal area in red quad, added some material variants and decal for underwater geothermal assets
  
• Adding IceMammoth Den to Prometheus
  
• Shield no longer equips when holding a weapon with the 'thrown' tag

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